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Cenotes and Sinkhole Concepts

General articles on cenotes, sinkholes and dolines, the collapse features that open the water table to the surface and shape karst landscapes around the world. These articles explain how the ground gives way, how the water below is reached and how the pits are named in different regions. An article belongs here when it explains the landform itself rather than one named site. Each member is placed by what its own article says it is, never by its name alone.

Cenotes and Sinkhole Concepts
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Sinkhole (Wikipedia)
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A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
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Wikipedia: Cenote
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A cenote (English: or ; Latin American Spanish: [seˈnote]) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater.
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